Poll Results: What Should Be Done to Create Jobs in Elk Grove

Job creation is city leaders' top priority, Elk Grove Mayor Steven Detrick told the audience earlier this year in his .

With the city budget for the next fiscal year setting aside over $600,000 for economic development, the stakes are high in the search for the right tonic for Elk Grove's ailing job market.

So we were eager to hear what readers would come up with when what should be done to create jobs in Elk Grove.

Twenty-seven percent of you were pessimistic, saying there's nothing to be done here locally; we're at the mercy of larger economic forces. Another 27 percent chose the ever-popular route of giving businesses tax breaks and reducing regulation.

Some readers were ready to go with less-tested ideas: 18 percent thought we should convince state agencies to locate their offices here. And nine percent each voted for requiring companies to hire local residents, funding a city-run jobs program with taxes on the wealthy, and running a PR campaign touting the benefits of doing business in Elk Grove.

We'll be sitting down next week with Angela Perry, Executive Director of the and Interim Executive Director of the Elk Grove Economic Development Corporation, to see what she thinks of these options.

In the meantime, we couldn't help but notice: Only a small number of you voted in this poll, compared to the hordes who clicked over the previous week when we asked, We know y'all care about jobs. Was the question too ho-hum? Too challenging?